Do not confuse Barbara La Marr and Hedy Lamarr(During the filming of her latter film,Barbara died(1896-1926)following a brutal slimming complicated by depression and ethyl" (there are other explanations).Barbara was born in the state of Washington,her parents moved to California,where she began her explorations of L.A as a teenager.After several disastrous marriages she worked as a burlesque dancer.They moved to New York,where she wrote six scenarios for Fox.She made the successful leap from writer

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to actress in Douglas Fairbanks,and her career skyrocketed under her new name of Barbara La Marr (she adopted the alias because of a scandal when she was arrested in the late Teens,and called by the judge "too beautiful to be alone in a big city").She lived extravagantly.After an affair with John Gilbert,her career went into a decline and her contract with Metro was terminated.She went to New York,where drugs and alcohol brought on tuberculosis, from which she died in 1926.